Word: stinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct an oldtime German Stinger fest and found Traubel scheduled as a soloist. He was so bowled over by her voice that he invited her to Manhattan, promptly wrote a part for her in his opera The Man without a Country. The opera 'was a flop, but Traubel stayed on in Manhattan, cooking her own meals, mending her own clothes, plugging away patiently at her vocal studies. Two years later she managed to scrape up the cash for a Town Hall debut and critics made such a fuss that the Metropolitan added...
...Court of Justice to try all criminals-of-war-after the war. Molotov's answer (addressed, not to Britain and the U.S., but to the nine little Governments in Exile): Why not set up the court at once? To his Molotov cocktail the Foreign Commissar added a Stalin stinger: And why not begin by trying, and hanging, Nazi Arch-Criminal Rudolf Hess...
...Treasury, said he, still does not want a sales tax, but if there must be one, it ought to be a general tax on retail sales of both goods and services. He estimated that a 5% levy would yield about $2.5 billion. But he unloosed another stinger: a scheme to license tens of thousands of retailers to enforce the tax and 15,000 tax policemen...